STM32, Maple and Maple mini port to IDE 1.5.x

He Guys,
I just spend more then a day trying to the CardInfo example running on a maple mini board.
The SD is wired to SPI2 and chip select is on pin D14. It's hard wired so I cannot change it for testing.
Should the SPI2 work or am I chasing something that is not meant to be (yet?)
( it works correctly with the original maple stuff, but I want to use the arduino IDE because it has a more recent libmaple under the hood)
I have an Olimex maple-clone that also uses SPI2 for its SD card but it has the same problem.

Please give me some pointers as I think I am in uncharted territories.

Cheers